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A federal appeals court has largely upheld the guilty verdict and life prison sentence of an English cleric and convicted terrorist known as “Hook Hand.”

A panel of three Manhattan federal appeals court judges said the life sentence of Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, also known as Abu Hamza al-Masri, was perfectly reasonable “given the severity of Mustafa’s criminal conduct.”

The judges also rejected requests for Mustafa, who has no hands and one eye, serve his life sentence in a medical facility — or at least not in the maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado where he has been placed.

The court upheld the bulk of his conviction Tuesday while reversing two counts that required the government prove he provided material support to terrorists while within the US, saying that “no part of that conduct occurred within the United States.”